A daring parkour stunt takes an unexpected turn in this unbelievable moment caught on camera. While attempting an impressive corkscrew flip during a filming session, a skilled freerunning athlete ...

The head of a Holyrood committee has expressed his “extreme disappointment” that Shetland’s council failed to show up to a meeting about salmon farming. Finlay Carson, chairman of the rural affairs ...

In a climate emergency in which high temperatures, heatwaves and droughts are increasingly common events, cooling systems and access to water have become some of society's greatest challenges and one ...

That’s what we skydivers call people who can’t understand why we risk everything for the thrill of our sport: “Wuffo,” as in “what for”? Why would we jump out of airplanes and trust our lives to the ...

Grail’s shares plummeted more than 45% after-hours Thursday as the medtech revealed a major National Health Service (NHS) trial of its Galleri test missed its primary endpoint. In top-line data ...

Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

In the mid-1960s President Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty” and created the modern American welfare state. A nationwide programme of food stamps began in 1964. Two big public ...